Placebo Domingo
@brbcoding.bsky.social
🛠 Tech junkie & indie maker working with PHP / Laravel / Livewire / Alpine / Tailwind / Svelte / Tauri / Rust (curious)
🚴 cyclist / 🏃♂️ runner / 🏊♂️ swimmer
I blog at https://chasingcode.dev/blog/
🚴 cyclist / 🏃♂️ runner / 🏊♂️ swimmer
I blog at https://chasingcode.dev/blog/
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#tinyCSStip
What's the point of setting background on an img anyway? 🤷
Well, it's useful if we want a border pattern only possible with multiple gradients (border-image only allows one)/ if we also want to have rounded corners (border-image + border-radius = 💩).
codepen.io/thebabydino/...
#CSS
What's the point of setting background on an img anyway? 🤷
Well, it's useful if we want a border pattern only possible with multiple gradients (border-image only allows one)/ if we also want to have rounded corners (border-image + border-radius = 💩).
codepen.io/thebabydino/...
#CSS
November 26, 2024 at 5:45 PM
#tinyCSStip
What's the point of setting background on an img anyway? 🤷
Well, it's useful if we want a border pattern only possible with multiple gradients (border-image only allows one)/ if we also want to have rounded corners (border-image + border-radius = 💩).
codepen.io/thebabydino/...
#CSS
What's the point of setting background on an img anyway? 🤷
Well, it's useful if we want a border pattern only possible with multiple gradients (border-image only allows one)/ if we also want to have rounded corners (border-image + border-radius = 💩).
codepen.io/thebabydino/...
#CSS
Vile. Disgusting. Nauseating.
November 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Vile. Disgusting. Nauseating.
Couldn't agree more. AI art is soulless, bland, and nauseous.
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Couldn't agree more. AI art is soulless, bland, and nauseous.
10x engineer nowadays is the time spent reviewing a PR that a coworker vibe-coded.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4574...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4574...
Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs? | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
10x engineer nowadays is the time spent reviewing a PR that a coworker vibe-coded.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4574...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4574...
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The more color systems I write, the more I realize that opacity variants are way more useful than lightness variants.
From a CSS library I wrote for myself: drop-in-graffiti.netlify.app
From a CSS library I wrote for myself: drop-in-graffiti.netlify.app
October 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The more color systems I write, the more I realize that opacity variants are way more useful than lightness variants.
From a CSS library I wrote for myself: drop-in-graffiti.netlify.app
From a CSS library I wrote for myself: drop-in-graffiti.netlify.app
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I think this is one of my favorite personal blog posts of all time :D stitcher.io/blog/procedu...
Building a procedurally generated game with PHP - stitcher.io
I wrote a procedurally generated game from scratch
stitcher.io
October 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I think this is one of my favorite personal blog posts of all time :D stitcher.io/blog/procedu...
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Ten Tempest Tips: aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/26154
Ten Tempest Tips — Tempest
Ten things you might now know about Tempest
aggregate.stitcher.io
September 23, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Ten Tempest Tips: aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/26154
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🚨 PSA for #PHP package maintainers: DO NOT REPLACE tags! If you messed up a release simply do another. No matter how quickly you notice a mistake, automatic tools already pulled the original tag, triggered automatic updates. Users will never know you recreated the tag and use the broken state. #phpc
September 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🚨 PSA for #PHP package maintainers: DO NOT REPLACE tags! If you messed up a release simply do another. No matter how quickly you notice a mistake, automatic tools already pulled the original tag, triggered automatic updates. Users will never know you recreated the tag and use the broken state. #phpc
Fantastic series! I'm gonna take a lot of this to heart for our app at work. We recently boosted performance massively by adding an index on a column that was constantly hammered due to it being part of middleware that was invoked on every request.
At Oh Dear, my colleague Mattias recently vastly increased the performance of our service. Here's how he did it: ohdear.app/news-and-upd...
SQL performance improvements: finding the right queries to fix (part 1)
This post covers tips and tricks for performance tweaking your SQL queries by first identifying which queries need work.
ohdear.app
September 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Fantastic series! I'm gonna take a lot of this to heart for our app at work. We recently boosted performance massively by adding an index on a column that was constantly hammered due to it being part of middleware that was invoked on every request.
Color me flabbergasted
The Garmin Edge 550 & 850 have a secret feature: User-serviceable batteries. This means that (way) down the road if the battery dies you can swap it out. Fully supported by Garmin. So I decided to take it apart and see how easy it is. Dive in, literally: www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/09/garm...
September 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Color me flabbergasted
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I always got better code from Codex than Claude Code, but not having any local story is hard for certain kind of tasks. Big upgrade now with Codex being part of your existing plan, letting you offload a running local job to cloud codex without losing context and more openai.com/codex/
OpenAI Codex
Codex is OpenAI’s series of AI coding tools that help developers move faster by delegating tasks to powerful cloud and local coding agents.
openai.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I always got better code from Codex than Claude Code, but not having any local story is hard for certain kind of tasks. Big upgrade now with Codex being part of your existing plan, letting you offload a running local job to cloud codex without losing context and more openai.com/codex/
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gradient.style has finally
- come out of beta
- offers multiple background editing
- is open source
🎉 nerdy.dev/gradient.sty...
- come out of beta
- offers multiple background editing
- is open source
🎉 nerdy.dev/gradient.sty...
August 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
gradient.style has finally
- come out of beta
- offers multiple background editing
- is open source
🎉 nerdy.dev/gradient.sty...
- come out of beta
- offers multiple background editing
- is open source
🎉 nerdy.dev/gradient.sty...
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Slightly different content than I usually create. I put together a sort of retro for my site that went accidentally viral.
How it handled a half billion requests on a $4 server, and why I think the web as a platform is unmatched.
Check it out below!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk3T...
How it handled a half billion requests on a $4 server, and why I think the web as a platform is unmatched.
Check it out below!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk3T...
Handling 500M clicks with a $4 VPS
YouTube video by Andrew Schmelyun
www.youtube.com
August 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Slightly different content than I usually create. I put together a sort of retro for my site that went accidentally viral.
How it handled a half billion requests on a $4 server, and why I think the web as a platform is unmatched.
Check it out below!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk3T...
How it handled a half billion requests on a $4 server, and why I think the web as a platform is unmatched.
Check it out below!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk3T...
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Amazing blog post. There's something about it that just *feels* so good muffinman.io/blog/invaders/
How to draw a Space Invader · Muffin Man
This interactive post will show you how to build your own fleet of space invaders by mixing geometry with randomness and a splash of color.
muffinman.io
August 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Amazing blog post. There's something about it that just *feels* so good muffinman.io/blog/invaders/
Lots of good stuff in this one 👏
Pest v4 is here — now with browser testing! Browser tests that feel like unit tests: Laravel-ready, Playwright-powered, parallel-fast, with smoke & visual regression built in. Discover Pest v4 — and our new website: pestphp.com?ref=v4
Pest | The elegant PHP testing framework
Pest is a testing framework with a focus on simplicity, meticulously designed to bring back the joy of testing in PHP.
pestphp.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Lots of good stuff in this one 👏
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I wrote a thing… cmorrell.com/llm-recipes
LLM Recipes - Chris Morrell
There are a lot of things that LLMs are still not good for (making decisions is sure a big one). But I'm finding more and more use-cases that are helpful, and I've decided to document some of them…
cmorrell.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I wrote a thing… cmorrell.com/llm-recipes
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Started a new short-form podcast about game design, inspired by @calebporzio.bsky.social's Notes On Work. Every week I'll talk about a hard game design problem, something interesting I'm working on, or a game that's inspiring me. notesonplay.transistor.fm
Notes on Play
A game development log where I share the hardest game design problems, and share thoughts on the games I'm playing. My name is John Rudolph Drexler and you can find my games at catacombian.com
notesonplay.transistor.fm
August 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Started a new short-form podcast about game design, inspired by @calebporzio.bsky.social's Notes On Work. Every week I'll talk about a hard game design problem, something interesting I'm working on, or a game that's inspiring me. notesonplay.transistor.fm
Svelte lurkers, now's your time to shine!
Who here is using Laravel + Svelte?
Getting an increasing number of messages about Svelte stuff, trying to get a sense
Getting an increasing number of messages about Svelte stuff, trying to get a sense
a man is talking to a group of people while standing in front of a tree .
Alt: a man is talking to a group of people while standing in front of a tree .
media.tenor.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Svelte lurkers, now's your time to shine!
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I wanted to release the Svelte 5 guide later since I was thinking about interactive examples but here you go if you like reading and I would love your feedback as I work on the video. 😄
joyofcode.xyz/learn-svelte
joyofcode.xyz/learn-svelte
August 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I wanted to release the Svelte 5 guide later since I was thinking about interactive examples but here you go if you like reading and I would love your feedback as I work on the video. 😄
joyofcode.xyz/learn-svelte
joyofcode.xyz/learn-svelte
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100% agree: freek.dev/2900-why-i-d...
Why I don't use down migrations | freek.dev
Every once in a while, someone opens a PR on one of our open source packages adding a down function to the migration. I usually close those PRs fast with a thank you and a message “We don’t use down m...
freek.dev
August 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
100% agree: freek.dev/2900-why-i-d...
@calebporzio.bsky.social 👏 Livewire v4 🔥
July 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
@calebporzio.bsky.social 👏 Livewire v4 🔥
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Let me remind you of tempest/highlight, which is a flexible and awesome server-side code highlighter, I love it 🤩 tempestphp.com/1.x/packages...
Highlight — Tempest
Tempest's highlighter is a package for server-side, high-performance, and flexible code highlighting.
tempestphp.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Let me remind you of tempest/highlight, which is a flexible and awesome server-side code highlighter, I love it 🤩 tempestphp.com/1.x/packages...
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Cloudflare, a tech company that helps websites secure and manage their internet traffic, said Tuesday that it had rolled out a new setting that allows customers to automatically block A.I. companies from collecting their digital data.
Cloudflare Introduces Blocking of A.I. Scrapers By Default
The tech company’s customers can automatically block A.I. companies from exploiting their websites, it said, as it moves to protect original content online.
trib.al
July 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Cloudflare, a tech company that helps websites secure and manage their internet traffic, said Tuesday that it had rolled out a new setting that allows customers to automatically block A.I. companies from collecting their digital data.